Editing Public space (section)

===Art===
[[File:CESENA-3497.jpg|thumb|right|250px|[[Piazza del Popolo, Cesena|Piazza del Popolo]] in [[Cesena]] with the artistic ''Fontana Masini'']]
[[File:Projections of fire and text onto the National Theatre London by Public Artist Martin Firrell.jpg|thumb|250px|[[Martin Firrell]] The [[Royal National Theatre]] [[London]] 2016]]
{{Main|Public art}}{{See also|Anti-monumentalism}}
This sense of flux and change, informs how contemporary public art has evolved. Temporal art in public spaces has been a long established practice. But the presence of public art has become increasingly prevalent and important within our contemporary cities. Temporal public art is so important because of its ability to respond to, reflect, and explore the context which it inhabits.  Patricia Phillips describes the "social desire for an art that is contemporary and timely, that responds to and reflects its temporal and circumstantial context."<ref>Patricie C. Philips, 1989, "Temporality and Public Art", Art Journal, Vol. 48, No. 4, Critical Issues in Public Art (Winter, 1989), pp. 331–335</ref> Public art is an arena for investigation, exploration and articulation of the dense and diverse public landscape. Public art asks its audience to re-imagine, re-experience, re-view and re-live. In the design field, a heavy focus has been turned onto the city as needing to discover new and inspired ways to re-use, re-establish and re-invent the city, in step with an invigorated interest in rejuvenating our cities for a sustainable future. Contemporary design has become obsessed with the need to save the modern city from an industrialized, commercialized, urban pit of a death bed.{{Citation needed|date=January 2019}} In some cases, dance, music and other cultural events organised by the local community have been crucial in the process of revitalisation of some decayed public spaces.<ref>Gutiérrez, F., Törmä, I. Urban revitalisation with music and dance in the Port of Veracruz, Mexico. Urban Des Int 25, 328–337 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41289-020-00116-8</ref>